“…A Torres, un argentino nacido en Córdoba, le faltaban apenas dos meses para terminar su servicio y regresar a Texas para casarse. Estaba asqueado de la guerra por haber sido testigo de cómo algunos suboficiales utilizaban la repatriación de cadáveres de los soldados para hacer tráfico de heroína. …”

“…There are some hopeful signs in the trends; inflation adjusted Medicare expenditures per enrollee were relatively constant--one of the few cases in health care where expenditures per person have not grown--while the influence of "outlier" regions such as Miami and McAllen, Texas has diminished. Readmission rates have declined, while quality measures have risen. …”

“….” — Michael Yuan , University of Texas at Austin “Moving to the .NET Compact Framework is about to become much easier with the aid of this book. …”

“…OSCON Austin 2016 was as big as Texas itself with 293 speakers, 149 sessions, 40 half-day tutorials and 15 keynotes. …”

“…Bruce Ahlstrand likes to prospect for strategy gems in unlikely places - from the game of Texas Hold'em to the Greek tragedies. He has a D.Phil. from Oxford University and a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. …”

“…They include a nineteen-year-old Kentucky woman, a fiery leftist who came to wartime Spain on her honeymoon; a young man who ran away from his Pennsylvania college and became the first American casualty in the battle for Madrid; and a swashbuckling Texas oilman who covertly violated US law and sold Generalissimo Francisco Franco most of the fuel for his army. …”

“…Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did seventeenth century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically, 150 years before the invention of photography? …”
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“…Corpus Christi, Texas is being invaded. 14 million Ruby-throated hummingbirds fly into the town in a period of 48 hours. …”
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“…The Man Who Ran Washington is a page-turning portrait of a power broker who influenced America's destiny for generations. A scion of Texas aristocracy who became George H. W. Bush's best friend on the tennis courts of the Houston Country Club, Baker had never even worked in Washington until a devastating family tragedy struck when he was thirty-nine. …”

“…En Autobiografía del algodón, Cristina Rivera Garza sigue con curiosidad y asombro los pasos de aquellos hombres y mujeres que habitan su pasado familiar, obreros y campesinos que trabajaron la tierra que ahora conforma la frontera entre Tamaulipas y Texas, una región que alcanzó un alto nivel económico, social y cultural gracias al sistema de siembra del algodón. …”

“…The Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas, founded by Algur H. Meadows, boasts one of the finest collections of Spanish art outside Spain. …”